# Runway Studio Skills — model skill for cinematic & short films

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Run Runway's API from Python scripts: text, image and video-to-video, character performance, images, TTS.

- **Type:** [Model](https://skills.varg.ai/models.md) · [Cinematic & short films](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/cinematic.md)
- **Slug:** `runway-studio-skills`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Runway (vendor, verified)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/runwayml/runway-studio-skills
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Runway API key (RUNWAYML_API_SECRET), Python with uv
- **Cost:** Billed in Runway credits
- **Adoption:** 44 installs (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Generates video, images and audio with the Runway API through bundled Python scripts: text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video, character performance, image generation with references, sound effects, text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, voice dubbing and voice isolation, plus task polling. It covers product-ad workflows and lists models including Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Aleph, Veo 3.1 and Seedance 2.

## Use when

- Generate a video, image or audio with the Runway API
- A product ad video
- Dubbing or isolating a voice

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add runwayml/runway-studio-skills -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add runwayml/runway-studio-skills -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add runwayml/runway-studio-skills -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add runwayml/runway-studio-skills -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** gen4.5, gen4_aleph, gen4_image, gen4_turbo, veo_3_1, seedance_2, eleven_multilingual_v2

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/runway-studio-skills.mp4 — Aleph 2.0 video-to-video example on the Runway Dev landing page: edits applied to existing clips (balloons added to a car, a sneaker swapped and recolored); 0-8 s (credit: Runway, https://dev.runway.com/)

## Used for

- [Put your character into a reference video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/character-swap.md): Your character (or person) performs the exact motion of a trending video: dance, gesture, walk, ad performance — motion transfer.

## More cinematic & short films skills

- [Previz to Seedance](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-previz.md): Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
- [Higgsfield Generate](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/higgsfield-generate.md): Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI.
- [fal Recipes](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-recipes.md): Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on.
- [fal Fan Cam](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-fan-cam.md): Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays.
- [Gemini Omni Flash](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/gemini-omni-flash-api.md): Generate and edit video with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: text-to-video, first/last frames, extensions, edits.
- [Melies](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/melies.md): Generate images, video, movie posters and thumbnails from the terminal with 148 AI actors and style flags.

## Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt